Spain, which is chairing the European Union (EU), will use all possible mechanisms to resolve the existing problems, including the regional conflicts, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Ángel Moratinos.

“We will continue to speak with conviction and clarity on the major challenges that we face, including on regional conflicts, and to act with all the instruments at our disposal in a fully-fledged and coordinated way,” Moratinos said in an interview with Trend News responding to the question on the reformed EU's role in resolving the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.

Spain will chair EU in the first half of 2010. This is Spain’s fourth chairmanship in the EU and the first under the Lisbon Treaty that entered into force Dec. 1

The Lisbon Treaty provides the European Union with new instruments which will allow us to become a more capable and more coherent global actor, he said. This objective is already reflected in the European Union Security Strategy adopted by the European Council in December 2003, Moratinos said.

According to him, Spain is engaged to promote the European Union as a global actor and to support and protect human rights and the eradication of poverty in the world.

“This constitutes one of our main priorities for the next six months. We are working closely with the President of the European Council and with the High Representative/Vice President of the Commission to achieve this,” he said.

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